NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 20th Anniversary Schedule
Anniversary Main Page Participants Schedule Presentations
NOAA Auditorium and Science Center
1301 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD
| Master of Ceremony: | Richard Somerville Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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| Thursday, 14 April | ||
| 7:45 - 8:30 am | Registration - Coffee/Tea provided (Participants will need to go through security.) |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | Richard Somerville | |
| Introduction, acknowledgements, program history | ||
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Chester Koblinsky, Director, NOAA Climate Program Office | |
| NOAA Climate Service | ||
| 9:45 - 10:45 | Andy Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times; Senior Fellow, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies | |
| 10:45 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Dan Schrag, Harvard University and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology The future of global change |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | David Battisti, Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington Climate change and global food production |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Buffet (served in adjacent room) | |
| 1:00 - 2:10 | Begin Science talks (all talks to address at some point within their presentation the strategies, successes, challenges they have faced communicating their work to non-scientists, those outside their field, media, etc) | |
Topic Area: Atmospheric Chemistry |
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| Moderator: | Kerri Pratt (Class 19) |
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| Timothy Bertram (Class 17) From the molecular level to the global scale: Bridging disparate time and length scales in atmospheric chemistry |
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| Elizabeth Moyer (Class 10) From cold ice clouds to climate policy options |
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| Colette Heald (Class 15) Organic Aerosol: making complicated particles seem simple |
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2:10 - 3:10 |
Topic Area: Biogeochemistry |
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Moderator: | Katye Altieri (Class 19) |
| Irina Marinov (Class 14) Ocean ecology in a warmer world and consequences for the carbon cycle |
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| Nir Krakauer (Class 16) Rebuilding soil as a climate adaptation strategy |
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| Naomi Levine (Class 20) Small organisms with a large climate footprint: the production of DMS by phytoplankton and bacteria. |
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| 3:10 | Break | |
3:30 - 4:30 |
Topic Area: Paleoclimatology |
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| Moderator: | Julie Richey (Class 20) |
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| Michael Griffiths (Class 20) Out of the ice age: how Indonesian stalagmites trace changes in the Australasian monsoon |
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| Tom Koutavas (Class 12) A Brief History of El Nino: The last 25,000 Years |
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| Hezi Gildor (Class 11) Paleoceanography of the Red Sea: regional and global lessons |
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| 4:30 | Adjourn for day | |
| 5:30 - 7:30 | Reception in room SVC 203-02 at the new Capitol Visitor Center Sponsored by Colorado Senator, Mark Udall’s office |
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| Friday, 15 April | ||
| NOAA Science Center & Auditorium | ||
| 7:30 - 8:00 am | Coffee/Tea provided (Participants will need to go through security.) |
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| 8:00 - 8:20 | Margaret Spring, NOAA Chief of Staff | |
| 8:20 - 10:10 | Science talks resume | |
TOPIC Area: Climate Dynamics |
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Moderator: | Brian Rose (Class 20) |
| Larissa Back (Class 17) Intersections between deep convection and climate research |
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| Ryan Sriver (Class 18) Quantifying Climate Uncertainty |
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| Richard Seager (Class 2) Large-Scale climate dynamics & hydroclimate variability and change |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:45 | Communicating Science Panel discussion | |
| Gavin Schmidt (Class 6) Communicating the Big Picture |
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| Heidi Cullen (Class 9) Communicating Climate Science in a Changing Media Landscape |
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| Richard Somerville Speaking Truth to Power: Science and the UN Climate Negotiations |
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| Q&A Session | ||
| 11:45 - 12:00 pm | Wrap-up by MC: Richard Somerville | |
| 12:00 | Lunch buffet and closing remarks by Chet Koblinsky | |
| 1:15 pm | Adjourn | |